New Yorkers will have the chance this fall to decide whether the mayor and other elected officials should be limited to two consecutive terms, two years after Mayor Michael Bloomberg had the law changed so he could have a third term.

A panel charged with reviewing the city's laws decided yesterday which referendum questions to put on the ballot for the Nov. 2 election. Those include term limits and questions about whether to reduce the number of petitions needed by candidates to get on the ballot and whether more transparency should be required in political spending.

Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-independent, appointed the commission because of a promise he made after he persuaded the City Council to extend the term-limits law to three terms in 2008. He needed the law changed quickly so he could run for a third term last year, but he said at the time he would appoint a panel to possibly put the term-limits question to voters after a wider review of the charter - something that is typically done in city government every few years.

This year's panel began its work in March and has held multiple hearings all over the city, gathering opinions from hundreds of citizens. It decided to put before voters several issues, narrowed from scores of ideas.

"The questions that we're bringing forward, we believe after our due diligence, will lead to a better government, a better functioning government," said the commission's chairman, Matthew Goldstein.

Voters twice upheld a two-term limit by referenda in the 1990s. A Quinnipiac University poll in March found that voters support term limits by 70 percent to 22 percent; 55 percent of respondents said it should be limited to two terms, and 17 percent said three terms.

The commission's vote yesterday to put the issue on the ballot was unanimous, but the lone Island representative on the commission spoke out against term limits, saying he supported the panel's decision but would vote against the measure in the voting booth Nov. 2.

Limiting terms "robs me of my right to choose who I want as many times as I want," Richmond County Clerk Stephen Fiala said.

The wording of the questions has yet to be finalized, but the term-limits measure likely would ask voters whether New York City's charter should impose a limit of two consecutive full terms for the mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough presidents and City Council members.

The charter commission also approved including a measure to let voters decide whether City Council members should be prohibited from changing the term-limits law to benefit incumbents voting on the proposal.